Despot Synonyms and Antonyms

dĕspət
An absolute ruler, especially one who is harsh and oppressive
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. big brother
  2. dictator
  3. führer
  4. man on horseback
  5. oppressor
  6. strongman
  7. totalitarian
  8. tyrant
One who imposes or favors absolute obedience to authority
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. autocrat
  2. dictator
  3. tyrant
  4. authoritarian
  5. oppressor
  6. martinet
  7. totalitarian
  8. anarch
  9. autarch
  10. czar
  11. disciplinarian
  12. monarch
  13. monocrat
  14. rigorist
  15. ruler
  16. satrap
  17. satrapy
  18. tsar
Antonyms:
  1. democrat

Words Related to Despot

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Despot Sentence Examples

  • The archbishop Giovanni Visconti was at this period virtually despot of Milan.

  • It was about 348-345 B.C. that Aristotle spent three years at Assus with Hermeas, an ex-slave who had succeeded his former master Eubulus as despot of Assus and Atarneus.

  • Dionysius was regarded by the ancients as a type of the worst kind of despot - cruel, suspicious and vindictive.

  • The spectacle of an Eastern despot apparently advancing on the lines of European progress was in itself as astonishing as new.

  • Charlotte always arranges everything in our house and rules us like a despot.

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